(cp approaches the Home Thread of Roberto wearing kevlar underwear...& a rope around his ankle just in case the Brazilian Zeus is really on his game...)

Stumbled on this in the giveaway bin for $1.99 & figured what-th-heck, so (Italian Wine God) I DON'T KNOW if the people behind Le Moie / Fazi-Battaglia are Italian, American, French, Good or Evil. However, I knew it might be way over the hill, but it wasn't.

CP, Verdicchio is indeed worthy of both respect and aging. Our friend Ampellio Bucci releases his Riservas when they are 8-10 years old (and no trees are killed to produce them, it's all about reductive winemaking and extracting the natural lifeforce within the grapes).

As to FB, they are the Mondavi meets Almaden of the zona and provide work for thousands of contadinas who sell them grapes but for the real deal on Verdicchio seek out La Monacesca, Bucci, Seranelli and a couple of others I'll remember in the morning.....

Thanks for the suggestions Roberto. If what I got was indeed representative of the varietal, then I now have a preferred "fish wine"...which, from my limited research, is apparently how verdicchio is known. cp